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Health Physicist
Radiation Safety Officer
Environmental Manager
Education, Certifications, Registrations
M of Engineering, Engineering Management, 2007
MS, Materials Science, 2000
MS, Environmental Science and Engineering, 1994
BS, Biology, 1976
Certified Health Physicist, 1994, 3218, Active, Nationwide, 12/2006 through 12/2010
Overview of Applicable Training
Earned Value Management-24-hr., 2008,
40-hour HAZWOPER, 2008
First Aid, AED, CPR, 2008
ABHP Preparation and Exam, 1994
Internal Dosimetry, 1993
Applied Health Physics, ORAU/DOE/USNRC (5 wk. class), 1984
Radioactive Materials Licensing, 1983
Radiological Emergency Response Operations (RERO), 1982
MILDOS Modeling, 1981
Radiological Accident Assessment, 1981
Experience Summary
Mr. Brown has more than 25 years of experience as a health physicist, with specialized experience in quality assurance and quality improvement techniques, licensing, environmental safety, environmental engineering, waste management, integrated safety analysis, nuclear safety analysis in an NRC environment, hazard analysis, accident analysis including dispersion modeling for excursions and normal operations, as well as compliance and enforcement programs. This experience involved addressing Atomic Energy Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, Food and Drug Administration, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration Regulations, CERCLA, RCRA, and Department of Transportation issues. He has implemented a wide range of national and international industry standards and codes.
Mr. Brown has supported remediation projects in all of the EPA regions, and has worked with DoD, DOE, NRC, and commercial clients. Mr. Brown has worked on a number of process improvement and quality assurance teams in environmental and industrial programs leading either cost savings or revenue capture over $11 million.
Mr. Brown has been listed as Radiation Safety Officer on four radioactive materials licenses including Consulting, D&D, and specific licensing experience involving source, special, and byproduct material. This experience included extensive interaction with NRC and Agreement State regulators processing submittals, license applications, amendments, obtaining reciprocity, license termination, and release of properties for unrestricted use. Mr. Brown's experience includes all four NRC regions and headquarters, as well as activities in 13 states and one US territory. Mr. Brown has also been involved with establishing clean-up levels by identifying ARARs and developed DCGLs for remediation and decommissioning projects. Mr. Brown has extensive knowledge and skill in performing accountability and mass balance for processing materials.
Relevant Experience
Technical Manager, Health Physicist, multiple sites, Commercial Clients, Lakewood, CO (06-08-present)
Prepared FSS Reports, Sections of Preliminary Remedial Action Reports, and sections of commercial proposals. Prepared a chapter for submittal for a Part 70 licensing action, decommissioning plan, and worked with licensing personnel on coordinating language between decommissioning plan and RAI submittals.
Site Radiation Safety Officer, Shattuck Chemical Superfund Site, USACE, CR, Denver, CO (08/04 – 10/06). Responsible authority on radioactive materials licenses. Reviewed and prepared monthly analytical reports. Prepared Final Status Survey (FSS) reports for SU003-27, releasing the units as well as the site for unrestricted use. Technical reviewer and author/contributor for 12 operational procedures (site-specific Radiation Work Instructions for the conduct of work commensurate with the level of hazards present) and reviewer of the Radiation Protection Plan, Site Specific Health and Safety Plan. Created implementation materials for an amended radioactive materials license, and created internal audit components to initiate and maintain compliance for a Radioactive Materials License Compliance program. Built spreadsheet QA/QC chart tools to validate/document daily instrument performance checks. Mr. Brown prepared over 10 submittals to either the NRC or an agreement state. Concurrent with and immediately following this project support, Mr. Brown has also supported projects from coast to coast and beyond, including Guam and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a commercial retail client from coast to coast, and been involved in business development throughout North America.
Project Professional IX, Earth Tech Inc., multiple sites, AFCEE & DOE, CR, San Antonio, Texas (04/03 – 05/04). Prepared FSS reports for DOE (LANL) and DoD (Kelly AFB) facilities contaminated by NORM and tritium, developed QA and program plans to conform to 10 CFR 830, 10 CFR 835, and DOE Orders 414.1A, & 450.4-6 (ISMS). Radiation Safety Officer at a Superfund clean-up site contaminated with radioactive materials (radium, thorium, and cesium), lead, and PCB, in Fairbanks, AK. Prepared control charts for radiation detection instruments calibration/ performance checks. Prepared draft report summarizing work at the Arctic Salvage Yard Superfund Site. Mr. Brown served as RSO for a building demolition (D&D) project at Savannah River Site (SRS) (building 320(M)). Mr. Brown prepared facility maintenance and D&D plan for a private concern in Columbia, SC.
Health Physicist 2, Safety and Ecology, Inc., DOE for Bechtel Jacobs, CR, Piketon, Ohio (08/02 - 04/03). Managed RWP activities, waste management, involved in internal audit processes, investigated air sample results, Multi-Agency Radiation Site Survey Investigation Manual (MARSSIM)/free release criteria implementation, and conducted ISMS training. Reported on special dose assessments for radiological occurrence reports, performed statistical analyses, and prepared presentations of environmental statistics information to drive cost savings initiatives, in excess of $100,000.
Metrology/Yield Engineer, Intel Corporation, Direct, Rio Rancho, NM (06/00 - 07/02). Performed advanced quality improvement and process control change analyses for an inspection tool-set supporting multiple technologies and processes throughout the local fab and the virtual factory. Managed over 1200 control charts weekly, and maintained over a hundred tools on the local factory floor. Performed intensive troubleshooting and supported multiple introductions of new technologies to the factory.
Senior Scientist, Versar, Incorporated, AFCEE, CR, Northglenn, Colorado (11/96-07/97). Mr. Brown developed project work plan, training plan and materials, and strategic plan to review Air Force Radioactive Materials License documentation, verifying the adequacy of radioactive materials license termination procedures/documentation prior to property transfer. Designed a survey strategy using the draft MARSSIM, a joint release by DOE, NRC, EPA, DoD, and other NRC guidance, to conduct a radiological characterization to decommission 11 buildings using statistically defensible sampling methods, supporting decision process for a Finding of Suitability for Transfer (FOST). Used Internet search engines to identify regulations, standards, plans, specifications, and obtain guidance to economically obtain hardware and documents. Selected methods and instruments, developing procedures, training and supervising staff, using DOD, DOE, and NRC guidance, including NUREG-5849, and Multi-Agency Radiological Site Survey Investigation Manual (MARSSIM) approved by DOE, DOE, USEPA, and NRC), providing industrial hygiene, health physics, and industrial safety expertise to work plan tasks development. Mr. Brown examined groundwater interactions of trace quantities of halogenated solvent contamination involving TCE and PCE and thee installation of a reactive wall groundwater barrier.
Prior experience (4/81-9/96). Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (4/81 - 9/89). From 1981 through 1989, Mr. Brown was a project manager for licensing actions including processing applications and submittals for new licenses and amending existing licenses. Chief among these duties was Source Material milling (i.e., Uranium Milling) licensing, inspection and enforcement, environmental health and safety at manufacturing and chemical processing facilities, as well as a complete initiation to project completion perspective on CERCLA and RCRA response actions.
Other Mountain West (9/89 - 9/96). Mr. Brown was involved in high-level SNM and byproduct material management involving over a dozen submittals at INEL and prepared dozens of procedures for managing and accounting SNM at Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, as well as developing contingency plans for managing incidents involving SNM.
Computer and software experience: Mr. Brown has used a full complement of Microsoft Office suite software for problem solving, presentation and analysis. Facility with specialty software and codes includes: Microshield, Varskin, the ResRad family of codes (ResRad6.3 & 6.4, ResRad-Build 3.3 & 3.4, ResRad-Biota, ResRad-Offsite, ResRad Recycle 3.10); MILDOS, RadDecay, Radon-Flux, Airdose, ValleyModel, Cap-88-PC, Code for INternal DosimetrY (CINDY), CrystalBall, Statgraphics, NCSS, JMP, & JUMPN, MINITAB, MVPStats, and SPSS for windows, MathCad and Mathematica.
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